Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance
基于对地方政府组织变革项目的定性研究，探讨了生物权力如何与话语和规训权力纠缠，并提出了‘生物抵抗’概念，指利用‘生活本身’进行多面、矛盾且无限的抵抗。
It has been argued that managing employees is changing from discipline towards bio-power that targets life abilities and extra-work qualities. Drawing on qualitative research into an organizational transformation programme in a local government authority, this article identifies a more entangled situation. First, it explores how change agents sought to enrol employee support for transformation through employing a discourse that included enterprise and mutuality. Second, it analyses how bio-power is entangled with discursive and disciplinary power. Third, it introduces the term bio-resistance that refers to the capacity to utilize ‘life itself’ in multifaceted, ambivalent and illimitable ways, to resist.